Film Review: We Are Legion

Film Title: We Are Legion
Subtitle: The Story of the Hacktivists
Director: Brian Knappenberger
Producer: Luminant Media
Released Date: October 19, 2012
Running Time: 93 minutes
Language: English
Country: USA

This documentary film talks about the anonymous hackers or hacktivist collective group named "Anonymous".

The film interviews various people with connection to hacktivitist and talks about the motive of the said group.

The documentary video also outlines known hacking events perpertrated by "Anonymous" like the Habbor raids, attacks on Scientology (a.k.a. Project Chanology), operation Sony and many others.

What's more cool about this documentary is, along the discussion of people on the video, I just discovered a denial-of-service attack tool which i'm not aware of before. It's called Low Orbit Ion Cannon which is downloadable from SourceForge -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/

Film Review: Life of Pi

Film of adaptation of book by Yann Martel

Film Directed by: Ang Lee

The story may compare to 2000 film Cast Away, where Pi (Piscine Molitor Patel) - main character of the story and Richard Parker - a Bengal tiger were drove away from a sinking ship.

It's a story of patience, survival and hope. There are many points of the story that I can relate about. Like Pi getting friendship with a wild tiger.

I remember when i was a kid, we have a pet dog. I am afraid of this dog because it's not a typical dog you can tame about - it's an "askal" or a street dog in our local term. Our dog used to guard on our front door. Whenever I pass through our front door, this dog is at threatening stance, It look like it would bite me any moment I pass. I give it food every time i pass. Weeks passed, I continue with the routine and It's treating me back that time as his owner.

Another point I can relate about Pi is that he tried to join different religion. With my current belief, I'm sticking with one religion but I am not a full pledge devotee. I believe there's God who created us but I just leave it to that we can't scientifically explain where, what, who is God.

Lesson I learn from this film is - don't lose hope though you're on a misarable situation like floating at the center of the sea. Moment that there are no ways to survive, just wait, think calmly and things that can brought up ways will find you.